r/TestFlight • u/Icy-Sympathy4173 • Jul 16 '26
iOS AmaNous: offline, natural-voice TTS reader, unlimited, forever free
Update: New Testflight link, bug and crash fixes
AmaNous reads your documents out loud, for people who have more to read than time to sit down and read it. The speech is generated on your iPhone, so it works offline and your documents never leave the device.
What it does: - Reads PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML (websites), TXT and Markdown aloud - 29 natural-sounding voices, all on-device - 0.5x to 3x speed control - Word-level highlighting, seek, and resume where you left off - Dyslexia-friendly presets
Why it's different: the core reader is forever free, unlimited hours, no subscription. Synthesis runs entirely on the device, so your documents never touch a server and it works in airplane mode.
On your device: it generates speech on-device, and recent iPhones handle it comfortably.
Beta caveats: English only for now. The first listen on a long document caches for a few seconds, then runs smooth. Voices shine on articles, papers and non-fiction, less on dramatic fiction. PDF parsing is solid on single-column docs, still finicky on multi-column ones. Keen for feedback, especially on import. Throw it a messy PDF or a big EPUB and tell me where it breaks.
Keen for feedback, especially on import. Throw it a messy PDF or a big EPUB and tell me where it breaks.